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Wright, Frances (Fanny) (1795–1852)

  • Creator(s): Hynes, Jennifer A.
Text:

New York: Bliss and White, 1825. ———. Life, Letters, and Lectures, 1834–1844. New York: Arno, 1972.

"Wound-Dresser, The" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

"World Below the Brine, The" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Wohlpart, A. James
Text:

American Transcendental Quarterly 53 (1982): 49–66.Freedman, William A.

Women as a Theme in Whitman's Writing

  • Creator(s): Ceniza, Sherry
Text:

accomplishing his aims, to portray "democratic" women, as well as men, black, brown, and red as well as white

create an expansive space for women, something very much against the grain of his times, at least for white

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Wilmot Proviso (1846)

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

solidly within the Free Soil camp and showed his thinking on slavery to be motivated more by concern for white

echo the Free-Soilers' position that the introduction of slavery would discourage, if not prohibit, white

prototypical Free-Soiler and characterizes the debate as an issue not of race but of class between white

While Whitman's position follows the Free-Soilers' emphasis on white labor and not on moral opposition

to slavery, Whitman, unlike many Free-Soilers, does not evoke white anxiety about associating with blacks

Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)

  • Creator(s): Gutman, Huck
Text:

HuckGutmanWilliams, William Carlos (1883–1963)Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963) The influence of Walt

Whitman's poetic practice on William Carlos Williams was both seminal and immensely rich.

William Carlos Williams: An American Artist. New York: Oxford UP, 1970. Tapscott, Stephen.

American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman. New York: Columbia UP, 1984.

Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)

Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

Philip W.LeonWilliams, Talcott (1849–1928)Williams, Talcott (1849–1928) Talcott Williams was born in

is the presence of Talcott Williams" (Traubel 341).

In 1887 Williams introduced Eakins to Whitman so that he could paint his portrait.

Talcott Williams: Gentleman of the Fourth Estate. Brooklyn: Robert E. Simpson, 1936.

Williams, Talcott. The Newspaperman. New York: Scribner, 1922. Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

Williams, Captain John

  • Creator(s): Cooper, Stephen A.
Text:

Stephen A.CooperWilliams, Captain JohnWilliams, Captain John Captain John Williams, great-grandfather

As a young man Williams served under John Paul Jones on the Bon Homme Richard; notably, he fought in

Williams's daughter, Naomi ("Amy") Williams Van Velsor, told Whitman of his great-grandfather's sea adventures

Williams, Captain John

Whitman's "November Boughs"

  • Date: 15 November 1888
  • Creator(s): Garland, Hamlin
Text:

In calculating the decision of the world upon his book, he says William O'Connor and Dr.

Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 15 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

tree itself; everybody knows that the cedar is a healthy, cheap, democratic wood, streaked red and white—an

Whitman's Complete Works

  • Date: 3 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Baxter, Sylvester
Text:

cover is a plain one, with marbled sides and back of dark olive, with the title pasted on in plain white

says one white-haired old fellow remonstratingly to another in a budget of letters I read last night.

Whitman’s Drift

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Cohen, Matt
Text:

For help with chapter 1, I am indebted to William L.

DB William White, ed., Walt Whitman: Daybooks and Notebooks. 3 vols.

William G.

William H.

, William Allen, 57 “Verses Written at the Grave of white settlement myth, 184, 251n116 McIntosh” (Posey

Whitman’s “Live Oak with Moss”

  • Date: 1992
  • Creator(s): Helms, Alan
Text:

To take only one example, shortly after Whitman was fired, William D.

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Whitman, Walter, Sr. [1789–1855]

  • Creator(s): Rietz, John
Text:

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____.

Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Genoways, Ted
Text:

Facsimile: WWR 24 (1978), [134], 133, ed. by William White. 1.

Facsimile: WWR 25 (1979), [182], ed. by William White. 1.

Facsimile: WWR 26 (1980), [40], with notes by William White. 1.

Facsimile: WWR 28 (1982), 108, ed. by William White; and Miller, 33.

White, WW’s February 28. From William H. Millis, Jr. landlady. Berg.

The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

William White, 3 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1978).

MWJ Herman Melville, White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, ed.

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

William L. Andrews (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 129. 10.

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Bibliography 255 ———.

Whitman, Poet and Seer

  • Date: 22 January 1882
  • Creator(s): G. E. M.
Text:

Sidgwick and William Clifford were both members of "The Apostles," the famous elite literary society

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
Text:

readers: a white fireman would have taken the white faces for granted and not have specified their color

The white that is—to whites—normally transparent becomes instead opaque, worth mentioning, there.

to a white speaker the whiteness of white faces is invisible or transparent.

to black and black to white.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:748. 22.

Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

typesetting at the young age of twelve as an apprentice on the Long Island Patriot under the tutelage of William

By the end of August he had engaged the New York printer William E.

Hotten, meanwhile, advertised the book by associating Whitman with Swinburne and William Blake (whose

Redfield, like William E.

This printing was bound in half cream leather with red, green, black and white marbled paper; the spine

Whitman, Jesse W. (grandfather) (1749–1803)

  • Creator(s): Miller, David G.
Text:

Jesse Whitman was the son of Nehemiah and Phoebe (Sarah White) Whitman; he inherited the family farm

Whitman in His Own Time

  • Date: 1991
  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
Text:

Gilder], The Lounger 66 William H.

Gertrude Traubel and William White; Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), 7July 1890

Garrison William H.

William T.

His hair was perfectly white.

Whitman, Hannah Brush (1753–1834)

  • Creator(s): Kohn, Denise
Text:

She told Walt about his unconventional great-grandmother, Sarah White Whitman, who chewed tobacco and

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

Here are Whitman’s words as transcribed by Williams: The Chinese don’t progress.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White, 3 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1980).

Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, D.

William Cookson (New York: New Directions, 1973), 145. 6.

Williams, William Carlos, 9 in tension with his chauvinism, Wills, Garry, 141n 163–166; and Japan, 161

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

Here are Whitman's words as transcribed by Williams: The Chinese don't progress.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White, 3 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1980).

Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, D.

William Cookson (New York: New Directions, 1973), 145.

After observing that "the lush white flowers" on the ground beneath a wild azalea "have not begun to

A Whitman Chronology

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

Blod gett, Arthur Golden, and William White.)

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. EPF Early Poetry and Fiction.Ed.

William B.

White, William. "An Unknowri Check for Ed Whitman's Board." Walt Whitman Review 22 (June 1976): 91.

William, 85 Cottage Fund, 130, 156 Chapin, William, 73 Cox, G.

Whitman among the Bohemians

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Levin, Joanna | Whitley, Edward
Text:

William Michael Rossetti, “Adah Isaacs Menken,” in American Poems, ed.

Fowler,William Chauncey. “Charles William Chauncey of New York.”

Howells,William Dean.

Edited by William White. New York: New York University Press, 1978. ———.

, 114– 15 O’Connor,William, 5 Mullen, Edward F.

Whitman (Van Nostrand), Mary Elizabeth (b. 1821)

  • Creator(s): Garrett, Paula K.
Text:

Their home, a small white house in a small town, represented for Whitman idyllic hearth-and-home living

Whitman & Dickinson: A Colloquy

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Athenot, Éric | Miller, Cristanne
Text:

William Douglas O’Connor, Three Tales (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892).

William James famously analyzes the corporeality of feeling in his 1884 “What Is an Emotion?”

William James, “What Is an Emotion?” Mind 9, no. 34 (April 1884): 188–205.

William White, vol. 3 (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 816.

White, “Emily Dickinson’sExistentialDramas,” in The CambridgeCompanionto Emily Dickinson, ed.

White, William (1910–1995)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

Donald D.KummingsWhite, William (1910–1995)White, William (1910–1995)From the 1950s to the 1990s, William

White was a strong presence in literary studies in general and in Whitman studies in particular.

Housman, Sir William Osler, Ernest Hemingway, and Nathanael West.

"William White, 1910–1995." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1995): 205–208.

White, William (1910–1995)

Whigs

  • Creator(s): Hatch, Frederick
Text:

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978. Whigs

'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' [1865]

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

Betts, William W., Jr., ed. Lincoln and the Poets. n.p.: U of Pittsburgh P, 1965. Erkkila, Betsy.

West Jersey Press

  • Creator(s): Matteson, John T.
Text:

life of their author" (qtd. in Reynolds 516).The day the article appeared, Whitman sent a copy to William

"We Two, How Long We were Fool'd" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

"We Two Boys Together Clinging" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Smeller, Carl
Text:

activeness also recalls the wrestling apprentices in "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855), the kind of young white

Washington, George (1732–1799)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

William A.PannapackerWashington, George (1732–1799)Washington, George (1732–1799) A Virginia planter,

Washington, D.C. [1863–1873]

  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

comrades" ("These I Singing in Spring") formed loving friendships with Charles Eldridge, Lewy Brown, William

influence of his friends in the Attorney General's office in the Treasury building, adjacent to the White

He relied on his married friends, William and Ellen O'Connor, and John and Ursula Burroughs, to provide

William O'Connor's advocacy of Negro suffrage and Whitman's indifference bordering on hostility was the

William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight.

Walt Whitman's Yawp

  • Date: 14 January 1860
  • Creator(s): Umos
Text:

the closed-up sutures in my cranium were opened as widely as if the brains were out, and a pint of white

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 9 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

sea-waves hurry in and out, not the air, delicious and dry, the airof the ripe summer, bears lightlyalong white

heat flames up and consumes,” “the sea-waves hurry in and out,” “the air of the ripe sum- mer” drops “white

by the concluding passage in which he associates thepoeticallymovinganderoticallysuggestiveimageof “white

october 31, 1863 [Saturday] and novem- ber 1, 1863 [Sunday], in which he describes a visit to the White

[new york: new york University Press, 1984], 539). althoughWhitman may not have “slept over at the White

Walt Whitman's Reconstruction: Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Buinicki, Martin T.
Text:

man should marry the black woman and the white woman the black man. . . .

of the Chicago Tribune, William Cullen Bryant of the New York Evening Post, and Edwin L.

Gilette,William. Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869–1879.

Hesseltine,William B.Ulysses S.Grant, Politician. NewYork: Frederick Ungar, 1957.

Interracialism: Black‑White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law.

Walt Whitman's Poetry

  • Date: 9 October 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

new edition of the "Poems of Walt Whitman" (published by Chatto and Windus), selected and edited by William

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
Text:

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti One Vol., pp. 406. J.C. Hotten.

To William Michael Rossetti, as the selecter of these poems, we are not simply, in old-fashioned phrase

That immortal house, more than all the rows of dwellings ever built, Or white domed white-domed Capitol

William Wordsworth was reputedly fond of the lesser celandine and it inspired him to write three poems

William Cowper (1731-1800) was a popular English poet of his time.

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 2 May 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti London: John Camden Hotten. 1868.

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a British poet, novelist and dramatist.

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
Text:

exceptions whose appreciation distinguishes the thinker from the dogmatist: intense black and glaring white

and all hearts thrill at the thought of murdered Naboth and his sons, and of Lear hanging over the white

women, or from offspring taken out of their mother's laps, This grass is very dark to be from the white

Here goes:— "Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the grist-mills, and

Scottish poet (1777–1844), writer of the long narrative poem Gertrude of Wyoming William Morris, "The

Walt Whitman's New Volume

  • Date: 30 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

malachite green, and floating—flying over and among them in all directions, myriads of these same white

Walt. Whitman's New Poem

  • Date: 28 December 1859
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Henry Clapp
Text:

his vulgar and profane hoofs among the delicate flowers which bloom there, and soiling the spotless white

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 10 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white and turbaned head, and bare

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 11 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Shepard, Charles E.
Text:

and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there, milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge, by those milk-white

Walt Whitman's Latest Work

  • Date: 9 February 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

This is actually William Michael Rossetti, not Dante Gabriel Rossetti as identified by the reviewer.

Walt Whitman's Good-Bye

  • Date: 12 December 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

On another side is the bed with white coverlid and woollen blankets.

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